What's your favourite 90's albums?

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Then ?
Suede's First/second album.
Now ?
Aimee Mann's nineties albums.
Jason Falkner:Can You Still Feel?

 

I've not heard a better new album since.

 

Anyone mention Copper Blue by Sugar? Then of course, Neil"s "Ragged Glory"

 

This is really hard since, save for Chinese Democracy, all my fave albums were released in the 90's. Grouped by artist and in no order (and i feel awful for leaving releases like Dirt, AIC s/t, any Pumpkins record, etc out):

NIRVANA
Nevermind
In Utero
MTV Unplugged In New York

ALICE IN CHAINS
Facelift
Unplugged

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
Core
Purple
Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop

LOCAL H
As Good As Dead

MARILYN MANSON
Portrait of An American Family
Antichrist Superstar

GUNS N' ROSES
Use Your Illusion I
Use Your Illusion II
"The Spaghetti Incident?"

NINE INCH NAILS
The Downward Spiral

THE OUTPATIENCE
Anxious Disease

 

Off the top of my head:

Alice In Chains - Dirt
Bill Frisell - Gone Just Like a Train
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Porcupine Tree - Signify

No-Man - Flowermouth
Kevin Gilbert - Thud
Santa Sabina - Mar Adentro En La Sangre
Soda Stereo - Sueno Stereo
Pat Metheny Group - Imaginary Day

Jon Brion - Meaningless
Adrian Belew - Here
John Zorn/Naked City - Radio
Yes - Keystudio
Bill Bruford - All Heaven Broke Loose

 

In no real order:

The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely (1992)
The Tragically Hip - Day For Night (1994)
Beck - Odelay (1996)
Sloan - Twice Removed (1994)
REM - Automatic For The People (1992)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994)
Temple of the Dog - eponymous (1991)
Tonic - Lemon Parade (1996)
U2 - Actung Baby (1991)
U2 - Zooropa (1993)
Pearl Jam - Ten (1991)
Pearl Jam - Vs (1993)
Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992)
RHCP - BSSM (1991)
RHCP - Californication (1999)

 

excuse me if any of these weren't 90s, I don't keep track of dates like most of you seem to.

Nevermind, In Utero, Unplugged - Nirvana
Unplugged - AIC
The Fragile - NIN
Goodbye Jumbo and Thank You World - World Party
Goo - Sonic Youth
Ragged Glory, Sleeps With Angels, Mirror Ball - Neil Young
Walking Into Clarksdale, No Quarter - Plant/Page

I think that pretty much covers it.

 

Bjork- Debut, Post, Homogenic
Radiohead- The Bends, OK Computer
Nirvana- Nevermind, In Utero
Portishead- Dummy
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californiacation
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless

 

Jim O'rourke - Eureka
Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur
16 Horsepower - Low Estate
Barry Adamson - Oedipus Schmoedipus
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Pj Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Tindersticks - Tindersticks (Second Album)
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
Morphine - Cure For Pain
Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later
Thinking Feller Union Local 282 - Mother Of All Saints
Mercury Rev - Boces
American Music Club - Mercury
Gun Club - Lucky Jim

 

Waterpistol - Shack
Hex - Bark Psychosis
Drop Out - East Village
So Tough - Saint Etienne
Jordan The Comeback - Prefab Sprout
Disgraceful- Dubstar
New Wave - The Auteurs
Workshy - Animals That Swim
Disk - The The
Another Year Another Address- The Popguns

Actually, I started with 10 but I'm going to 15
5 more

Paul Weller - Paul Weller
Laid - James
Song - It's Immaterial
Astronauts- The Lilac Time
The La's - The La's

 

Shine
Shine Too
Shine 3
Oasis - What's The Story

 

1. The Smashing Pumpkins, 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'

2. Morrissey, 'Bona Drag'

3. R.E.M., 'Automatic for the People'

4. Radiohead, 'The Bends'

5. The Breeders, 'Last Splash'

6. Pavement, 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'

7. Yo La Tengo, 'I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One'

8. Ramones, '¡Adios Amigos!'

9. Björk, 'Post'

10. Guns N' Roses, 'Use Your Illusion'

11. The Brian Jonestown Massacre, 'Take It from the Man!'

12. Nirvana, 'Nevermind'

13. Hole, 'Live Through This'

14. Marilyn Manson, 'Mechanical Animals'

15. Weezer, 'Weezer'

 

Bush - Sixteen Stone

Green Day - Dookie

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Garbage - 2.0

 

1. Lush - Gala (1990)
2. Slowdive - Pygmalion (1995)
3. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
4. Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991)
5. Air - Moon Safari (1998)
6. The La's - The La's (1990)
7. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (1996)
8. Michael Head & The Strands - The Magical World of the Strands (1997)
9. Eels - Beautiful Freak (1996)
10. Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway (1997)
11. The Charlatans - Some Friendly (1990, the US version)
12. Tindersticks - Curtains (1997)
13. The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991)
14. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de Lo Habitual (1990)
15. Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)

 

• Bill Frisell - Nashville
• Bill Frisell - The Sweetest Punch
• Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
• Calexico - The Black Light
• Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles
• Charlie Haden, Hank Jones - Steal Away
• Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - Missouri Sky
• Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira St
• Dave Alvin - Blackjack David
• Dave Alvin - King Of California
• Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
• Greg Brown - The Poet Game
• Holly Cole - Temptation
• Jacky Terrason and Cassandra Wilson - Rendezvous
• Jacques Loussier Trio - Satie
• John Prine - The Missing Years
• Joshua Bell & Edgar Meyer - Short Trip Home
• Keb Mo - Keb Mo
• Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
• Maceo Parker - Roots Revisited
• Marc Ribot - The Prosthetic Cubans
• Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
• Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue
• Patricia Barber - Modern Cool
• REM - Automatic For The People
• REM - Out Of Time
• Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - Grateful Heart: Blues And Ballads
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying
• Tom Waits - Bone Machine
• U2 - Achtung Baby
• Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor - Appalachia Waltz

 

Five that immediately come to mind as GREAT, GREAT 90s albums:

Sugar -- Copper Blue
Los Lobos -- Kiko
Olu Dara -- In the World: From Natchez to New York
Lyle Lovett -- Joshua, Judges, Ruth
Emmylou Harris --Wrecking Ball

 

Do we eventually get to the point where someone has mentioned pretty much every album released in the 90s?

I shall mention just one as probably my favourite of that decade. Holy Bandits by Oysterband.

 

In no particular order....

The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - In Utero
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Prince & The New Power Generation - Love Symbol album
Prince - The Gold Experience
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Hole - Live Through This
Use Your Illusion I - Guns 'N Roses
Use Your Illusion II - Guns 'N Roses
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Calafornication
Pixies - Bosssanova
U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - Zooropa
U2 - Pop
Sleater Kinney - Call The Doctor
Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
Sleater Kinney - The Hot Rock
Madonna - Ray Of Light
Metallica - Metallica (Black Album)
P.J. Harvey - Dry
P.J. Harvey - To Bring You My Love
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Faith No More - Album Of The Year
Bjork - Debut
Queen - Innuendo
Queen - Made In Heaven
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
4 Non Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Travis - The Man Who
Supergrass - I should Coco
Supergrass - In It For The Money
George Micheal - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
George Micheal - Older
George Micheal - Ladies and Gentleman
Type O Negative - October Rust
Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Lenny Kravitz - Circus
Lenny Kravitz - 5
Shakespears Sister - Hormonally Yours
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000 - Songs Of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of The Electric Head
Kate Bush - The Red Shoes
Extreme - Extreme II: Pornograffiti
Extreme - III Sides To Every Story
Extreme - Waiting For The Punchline

 

Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Queensryche - Empire
Tool - Undertow
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Tool - Aenema
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
AC/DC - Ballbreaker
W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards

 

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner - Ben Folds Five

 

Paul McCartney - Run Devil Run (1999)
Brian Wilson - I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (1995)
Luiz Bonfá - The Bonfá Magic (1991)
Jerry Lee Lewis - Young Blood (1995)
Tony Bennett - Here's to the Ladies (1995)
Brian Wilson - Imagination (1998)
Del Shannon - Rock on! (1991)
Jeff Lynne - Armchair Theatre (1990)
John Fogerty - Blue Moon Swamp (1997)
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie (1997)
The Rutles - Archaeology (1996)
Ringo Starr - Vertical Man (1998)
Bob Dylan - Time out of Mind (1997)
Roy Orbison - King of Hearts (1992)
Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 3 (1990)

 

I think this is my top three:

Pulp - Different Class
Mark Burgess - Zima Junction
Gene - Revelations

 

In no particular order

Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dog
Tease me - Chaka Demus & Pliers
X Uhuru - Michael Rose + Sly & Robbie
Chronic - Dr Dre
2001 - Dr Dre
Uptown Rebel - Cat Coore
Nino - Def Squad
Many moods of Moses - Beenie Man
Til Shiloh - Buju Banton
Inna Heights - Buju Banton
Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone - Sly & Robbie

 

Revelations is great but I lean towards Drawn To The Deep End.